Steel, in the black breath of this great steel mill
Date
[1950-1970?]
Summary
A composite photograph of steelworkers at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows a male worker holding a mallet and another a "tipping" rod, blast furnace, stoves, and smokestacks.
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 15 x 24 cm. (6 x 9 1/2 in.)
Subject
Pueblo (Colo.)--1950-1970; Steel industry--Colorado--Pueblo--1950-1970; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710010643
Notes
C. F. & I. Steel logo printed on front corner of photoprint.; Formerly copy negative F27442.; Title from typed label on back of photoprint with additional typed information: "and in the eyes of the men who gaze on it with an admixture of love and hate, one feels the immensity of the struggle which man has undergone to draw from the earth raw iron ore and fabricate it into the sinews of steel which give modern life its power, its strength and its unceasing vitality."; R7100106433
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